System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £1.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: 360 Video and Animation
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing or Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: With the award winning, critically acclaimed experience Old Friend, visionary VR creator Tyler Hurd delivers a fun animated reactive VR music video for the track “Old Friend” by the band Future Islands. Lose yourself in an overwhelmingly joyful world where only dance matters. Gaze upon the elegant dance routines and enjoy the blissful absurdity with your jiggling cartoon body. Unhinge yourself, feel the ridiculousness, and dance like everyone is watching.
Review: Old Friend is a bright and colourful music video from VR creator Tyler Hurd. With music from the band Future Islands, this is a short but very much fun experience that has the power to get you dancing. As you stand (or you can dance) watching the music play all around you, you can wave your elasticated arms and get into the music. To be honest, this ‘experience’ is more about how VR can draw you into the music, rather than a simple music video done in VR. Old Friend is a joy to watch from start to finish. The music is great, the animation is hysterical and it all comes together to make an oddly powerfully immersive experience that will make you smile from ear to ear. If this is the future of the music video, it’s a great future indeed.
